Monthly Archives: July 2010
US Threatens China With Open Warfare
ΩΩAs the US merrily heads straight towards WWIII with China, the US peace movement goes entirely off the rails. After a huge meeting here in Albany, they decided the most important immediate action they should take is to…attack the citizens … Continue reading
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Protectionism Is Best Choice During Depressions
ΩΩSorry about the lack of a daily story lately, my schedule has been very busy from 6am to well into the evening. But today, I am free! Hooray! The world is still very much in the grip of a global … Continue reading
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US To Spend Another $59 Billion On Futile Wars
ΩΩEconomic hell is continuing and is connected directly to US imperial pretensions. While we allow our industrial base and our international trading position to deteriorate to dreadful levels, our debts shooting upwards while our cohesion collapses, we roll merrily on … Continue reading
Filed under Free Trade, Politics, religion, war and peace
Brave Victorian Women: August 1896 News In NY
ΩΩWhile looking for a totally different story about the famous heatwave of early August, 1896, I ended up reading a lot of stories in the NYT archives from that month. What struck me was how many amazing stories about women … Continue reading
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Cave of Wealth And Death: Ethnic Identity Politics Are Deadly
ΩΩKilling peasants is very easy if there is no restraints in suppressing them. You simply butcher everyone. This is what we did to Fallujah, for example. The war crimes committed by the US, UK and Israel are harder and harder … Continue reading
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Looting The Public Purse Leads To Bad Things
ΩΩWorld finances are clearly showing us that the present global credit bubble is deflating and this means we will have more, not less, depression a la Japan. Elizabeth Warren, one of the few good people in DC, is trying to … Continue reading
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The Healthcare Gold Tax And Stagnant Wage Tax Revenues
ΩΩGold hoarders get hammered by Congress. Goldman Sachs spends record amounts bribing Congress so they get to do business as usual. And the US wonders about depressions and tries to not look at Japan too closely even though we are … Continue reading
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